Functional composition rather than species richness drive carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands
G. Gleixner, C. Roscher, S. Karlowsky, A. Milcu, A. Gessler, D. Bachmann, A. Jesch, M. Lange, P. Mellado-Vazquez, T. Strecker, D. Landais, O. Ravel, N. Buchmann, J. Roy
The paper investigates how functional composition, not species richness, influences carbon gain and allocation in grasslands using 13CO2 labeling.
bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2018Ecology